Poor Man’s Rich Man

The American Mind

Amanda Callanan

Philosophy, Declarationofindependence, Founding, Politics, Conservative, Limitedgovernment, Society & Culture, News, Constitution, Claremontinstitute

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Turns out that which doesn't bankrupt Donald Trump makes him richer. Somehow. Truth Social has been valued at $8 billion, over $4 billion of which accrues to Trump's net worth--all while his astronomical bond is being reduced in New York. Meanwhile, as Hamas enjoyers try to overrun the Left, the Right is locked in its own disputes about how to handle antisemitism. Everyone's looking for the one big bad guy or grand narrative that can explain the whole complicated world. But are they looking in the wrong places? The editors analyze the thought processes underlying the news before reminding you to read the damn site.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the roundtable.
0:03.0	Just when you think you've kind of pinned the tail on the donkey,
0:07.0	you look a level deeper and you see more chaos.
0:11.0	Multipolarity is a real bitch
0:13.0	and, you know, everyone's trying to penetrate
0:16.1	everyone else's intelligence networks.
0:18.2	Got all these random countries that used to mean nothing to anyone.
0:21.4	And now they're like secretly important players and all these machinations
0:25.1	that are going on. Ukraine has become kind of this, you know, a well that Western interests can go into to muck around and they want it to be weird and they want it to be
0:36.4	and they want it to be overly complicated. And so people are you know really desperate for some kind of like sense-making
0:46.0	that and in the absence of anything that is somewhere in the middle between
0:50.0	it's all total chaos nothing really happens nobody's in charge it's a total jump
0:56.1	all there's no predicting the future we can't even understand the present where
1:00.0	it's either that or it's actually everything is perfectly ordered there's like a
1:06.4	pinnacle elite group that controls everything when when your choices are one of those two
1:11.7	things it's not great for mental stability and people need something to hang on to. The Welcome once again to the Roundtable, your weekly publishers and editors
1:47.3	podcast here at the American Mind. As Ryan mentioned last week, we're going to be rotating hosts from here on out, but for now I am your
1:57.6	erstwhile host, Spencer Clavin, currently in the midst of a transition from features editor of the American mind to editor at large of the American mind, which is a title I love because it suggests that I'm a wanted criminal stalking abroad in the land yet to be caught still at large and I'm
2:16.2	joined this week by managing editor Seth Barron and editor James Poulas to discuss a whole number of things but to begin we're going to talk
2:26.0	about Trump's money. We did touch on this subject a while back when we talked
2:32.2	about his troubles in New York with Tisha James and the massive bond.
2:37.4	She slapped him with $464 million, which first was lowered in appeals court to 175 million dollars, which was kind of a win for Trump.
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